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netsharc ◴[] No.45167080[source]
So where's the donkey and where's the cart.

It reads like: citizens have been protesting the government using social media, government desperate to curb dissent bans social media, dissent is now on the streets..

Or maybe it's as straightforward as the media has been reporting.

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paganel ◴[] No.45167140[source]
It shows that the Nepalese have a higher civic response compared to many in the West, just look at the Brits, where in effect there is a social media ban on lots and lots of things that affect day-to-day life.
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FirmwareBurner ◴[] No.45167158[source]
Because people in the West have been indoctrinated to trust their governments far too much to an unhealthy degree to actually think that maybe their government doesn't have their best interest at heart and to start protesting.

And also because they're in the trap of a government provided cushy lifestyle which the government can terminate at will without violence (de-banking, de-pensioning, de-uneployment, de-social housing, etc) if they're caught protesting. People in underdeveloped countries don't have anything more to loose anyway but their chains.

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rkomorn ◴[] No.45168068[source]
News to me that the French, for example, trust their government and do not protest.
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1. FirmwareBurner ◴[] No.45168569{3}[source]
Trust is orthogonal to protests. Frech protest when the government takes away their gibs, not because it's spying on them.